ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,472, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).
"Ejection state determination method, ejection state determination apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing ejection state determination program" was invented by Atsushi Toyofuku (Shiojiri, Japan) and Toshiro Murayama (Fujimi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ejection state determination method for determining an ejection state of a liquid ejecting head in which a plurality of nozzles for ejecting a liquid in a first direction are arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The ejection state determination method...